Contact Form Function

csosa · April 9, 2015, 5:55pm

Hello I am making a contact Form and my PHP is not functioning not sure what I am missing or what it wrong:
I have the HTML and CSS HERE

<?php
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $phone = $_POST['phone'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $from = 'From: TangledDemo'; 
    $to = 'csosa@iogproducts.com'; 
    $subject = 'Hello';
    $human = $_POST['human'];
			
    $body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";
				
    if ($_POST['submit'] && $human == '4') {				 
        if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
	    echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
	} else { 
	    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
	} 
    } else if ($_POST['submit'] && $human != '4') {
	echo '<p>You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly!</p>';
    }
?>

RyanReese · April 9, 2015, 5:59pm

What errors are you getting? What “is not functioning”?

Try something like this

<?php
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $phone = $_POST['phone'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $from = 'From: TangledDemo'; 
    $to = 'csosa@iogproducts.com'; 
    $subject = 'Hello';
    $human = $_POST['human'];

    $body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";

    if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $human === '4') {				 
        if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
	    echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
	} else { 
	    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
	} 
    } else if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $human !== '4') {
	echo '<p>You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly!</p>';
    }
?>

Note that there is no sanitation here though so it’s highly vulnerable.

csosa · April 9, 2015, 6:06pm

Im not receiving the email. Note that I am testing it in my local host desktop not sure if that is why it is not working…

RyanReese · April 9, 2015, 6:09pm

Yes that’s likely the situation. Have you set up an e-mail server to do this?

csosa · April 9, 2015, 6:10pm

I believe so yes, should I try putting the files in the my server to see if it functions?

cpradio · April 9, 2015, 6:14pm

You could. But if you truly wanted to run it locally, you should verify that in your php.ini you have the SMTP Server Settings setup correctly.

csosa · April 9, 2015, 6:32pm

Alright so it is on my server, this is the LINK but now it gives me this error: You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly! when I fill out the form and submit.

cpradio · April 9, 2015, 6:47pm

None of your input fields have the name attribute and you don’t have a hidden field named “human”

RyanReese · April 9, 2015, 6:48pm

How do you get the $human variable? There is no element with the name=“human” in your HTML. So it will

Edit-Dangit I was installing JDK and as soon as I get back, I get ninja’d…

csosa · April 9, 2015, 6:59pm

You mean these right that I am missing? : name="fullname", name="email" etc…

I took this off…

cpradio · April 9, 2015, 7:03pm

Yes.

Then you need to edit your PHP script.

Take

    if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $human === '4') {				 
        if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
	    echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
	} else { 
	    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
	} 
    } else if (isset($_POST['submit']) && $human !== '4') {
	echo '<p>You answered the anti-spam question incorrectly!</p>';
    }

and change it to

    if (isset($_POST['submit']) {
        if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
	    echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
	} else { 
	    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
	} 
    }

csosa · April 9, 2015, 9:55pm

weird now it says I have a parce error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{’ in D:\Hosting\6870551\html\index_form.php on line 12

but I don’t seem to see it.

<?php
    $name = $_POST['name'];
    $email = $_POST['email'];
    $phone = $_POST['phone'];
    $message = $_POST['message'];
    $from = 'From: TangledDemo'; 
    $to = 'csosa@iogproducts.com'; 
    $subject = 'Hello';

    $body = "From: $name\n E-Mail: $email\n Message:\n $message";

      if (isset($_POST['submit']) {
        if (mail ($to, $subject, $body, $from)) { 
	    echo '<p>Your message has been sent!</p>';
	} else { 
	    echo '<p>Something went wrong, go back and try again!</p>'; 
	} 
    }
?>

cpradio · April 9, 2015, 10:03pm

Poor copy and paste on my part

Replace

if (isset($_POST['submit']) {

with (note the extra closing parenthesis needed)

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

csosa · April 9, 2015, 10:34pm

It said the message sent but I did not get the email…

I am having it sent to myself to to test it…

 $from = 'From: Demo'; 
 $to = 'myemail@business.com';  (not my actual email)

csosa · April 10, 2015, 12:29am

It has to do with my php.ini file right?
How do I link that to my HTML?

I need something like this right?:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25

This is what in that file right now:

register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = on

expose_php = Off
max_input_time = 60
variables_order = "EGPCS"
extension_dir = ./
upload_tmp_dir = /tmp
precision = 12
SMTP = relay-hosting.secureserver.net
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=,fieldset="
mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters);

; Only uncomment zend optimizer lines if your application requires Zend Optimizer support

;[Zend]
;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3
;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3
;zend_extension=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager.so
;zend_extension_ts=/usr/local/Zend/lib/Optimizer_TS-3.3.3/ZendExtensionManager_TS.so


; -- Be very careful to not to disable a function which might be needed!
; -- Uncomment the following lines to increase the security of your PHP site.

disable_functions = "highlight_file,ini_alter,ini_restore,openlog,passthru,
		      phpinfo, exec, system, dl, fsockopen, set_time_limit,
                     popen, proc_open, proc_nice,shell_exec,show_source,symlink"

cpradio · April 10, 2015, 12:42am

No don’t change that on your actual server. Chances are your host maybe restrictive the user of mail ()

Who is your host?

droopsnoot · April 10, 2015, 10:44am

Will it send using a from-address that isn’t a valid email address? Or did you put “demo” just to disguise it on the forum (a good idea)?

csosa · April 10, 2015, 3:26pm

Go Daddy.

csosa · April 10, 2015, 3:27pm

I put as a placeholder. What actually goes there though?

cpradio · April 10, 2015, 3:38pm

GoDaddy seems to have its own scripts it may want you to use (if you are on their Web/Classic hosting package)
https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/8376/using-our-php-form-mailers-on-web-classic-hosting

and
https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/508/specifying-an-email-address-for-the-php-form-mailer

If you have a cPanel/Plesk control panel, then you should be on the right direction using mail(), granted your From header is not quite right.

$from = 'From: TangledDemo';

Should be

$from = "From: TangledDemo <$email>";

And if that doesn’t work, it may require it to be from your email address

$to = 'youremail@yourdomain.com'; 
$from = "From: TangledDemo <$to>\r\n" .
    "Reply-To: $email";